What can not be cured must be endured. And diabetes perfectly fits in to this category. Any disease is bad but diabetes is perhaps the most annoying and widely spread disease in the world. You can not come out with it, you don't know when you will fall prey or how to prevent it in particular. So gadgetophilia today brings in 5 such gadgets that will help any diabetic to make life easier as far as monitoring and well-being is concerned. So, here is your top 5 gadgets for diabetics.

Most of us, myself excluded, aspires to be thin especially so much so that they often adopt unhealthy practices which lead to bulimia or diabulimia. Here are some safe tips from FDA which doesn't involve consulting a doctor and can be done by you without external help.

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Diabulimia is a new term used to describe an eating disorder that’s beginning to victimize type I diabetics. As with any other eating disorder teens are the most likely to develop it. The complication is not limited to teenagers only. Any insulin dependent diabetic can become a victim. Diabulimia is developed when a type I diabetic begins to skip scheduled insulin injections as a means of weight loss.

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Darren Rowse posted an interesting question: "What matters most to you as a blogger". Here's my answer:
1. Blog as repository of knowledge. I am an avid reader; I learn new things everyday. However I keep my RAM (quick search memory) very small. Consequently I frequently refer to my blog and then to Google to find something I discovered earlier (read: My brain is in Google). First and foremost I use the blog to jot down new information and knowledge I gather in course of my work and while browsing.

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Most of us know that exercise is good for us. It boosts circulation and tones the cardiovascular system. It builds strength, burns calories and reduces depression. It improves insulin sensitivity in people with diabetes. It may even help delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. But can you even imagine that it can partially reverse aging at the cellular level.

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The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun Microsystems was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest, the second time in three years that a Sun entry has won the top award. Bryan Cantrill and a team of engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc. created DTrace which allows you to rapidly diagnose problems in live applications.

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Google Base team worked with the U.S. government to get clinical trial data from http://www.clinicaltrials.gov.

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Cure for diabetes could be around the corner after US scientists found cells from the spleen can transform into insulin-producing cells. US researchers were able to halt, and even reverse, the disease in mice.

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I have moved the coverage of all Health related news to a separate blog - Consanesco. Here is the summary of important news from this week: Full article (68 words) »